Smart city policy goals are becoming mainstream in South East Asia but lack a supply of innovative smart city business models, products and services. ESCAP is joining the movement to support the acceleration
Dharamshala: The Himachal Pradesh ministry of urban development has decided to include provision of safe drinking water in the Smart City proposal for Dharamshala that has to be submitted to the Centre
Ahmedabad: A central aspect of smart cities is to create value for any services by integrating different technological systems in a city-which may link payment, civic services and the service industry.
With the second phase of the road rationing plan starting from April 15, the city is hoping that the impact on pollution levels will go beyond the cosmetics of less crowded roads. To take ideas and turn
In 1998, 11.72 sq kilometres of hill slopes in and around Vizag were occupied by houses and various other constructions. Cut to 2010 - The figure has shot up more than threefold at 35 sq kilometres,
If you go by NDMC's smart city concept note, its goal is to achieve WHO's air quality standard of 10 micrograms per cubic metre for PM 2.5 by 2025. It also aims to reduce per capita automobile count to
CHENNAI: With new projects including smart cities coming into focus, the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras is preparing a blueprint to set up a Centre of Excellence in Construction Engineering with
The residents of Gnanapuram and Old Town areas of the city have been suffering from respiratory diseases for the last several years due to pollution but the governments seem to be indifferent to the acute
Representatives of 23 cities which could not make it to the first list have a chance to submit revised proposals to the Urban Development Ministry by April 15 Representatives of 23 cities, which could
Affordable housing The Indian government cited that it would reduce carbon emissions relative to its GDP by 33% to 35% from 2005 levels by 2030. Some of the key expectations from Budget 2016 is that
Many years ago, when Delhi's air pollution was as high as it is today, my colleague Anil Agarwal and I had gone to meet a high-ranking, responsible government official. This was in the mid-1990s, when
